David H. Stevens , President and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) , told member of the Exchequer Club on Wednesday that in the 12 months since he last addressed them there had been some progress in clearing the uncertainty of a year earlier and an improving housing market. The first of the rules mandated under Dodd Frank have come out of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the housing market appears to be in a broad recovery. The new regulations, he said, will help shape...

" Total debt service payments as percentage of disposable income have fallen from a peak of 14.1% in 7/07 to just 10.6% today, a level last seen in 10/93; a decline of 25%. This is due to a combination of low interest rates , rising disposable income, and lots of mortgage defaults, which have reduced household debt from 100% of GDP in 4/09 to just 86% now." So writes economist Elliot F. Eisenberg, Ph.D. Maybe we'll arrive at the point where no one with good credit needs credit, or has debt payments...

David H. Stevens , President and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) , told member of the Exchequer Club on Wednesday that in the 12 months since he last addressed them there had been some progress in clearing the uncertainty of a year earlier and an improving housing market. The first of the rules mandated under Dodd Frank have come out of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the housing market appears to be in a broad recovery. The new regulations, he said, will help shape...

" Total debt service payments as percentage of disposable income have fallen from a peak of 14.1% in 7/07 to just 10.6% today, a level last seen in 10/93; a decline of 25%. This is due to a combination of low interest rates , rising disposable income, and lots of mortgage defaults, which have reduced household debt from 100% of GDP in 4/09 to just 86% now." So writes economist Elliot F. Eisenberg, Ph.D. Maybe we'll arrive at the point where no one with good credit needs credit, or has debt payments...

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